Our society is full of slimy little tricksters.

It's not really an emotional issue. It's related to understanding the past. As a historian, I've seen in high school and college and several countries that students of history have for decades wanted to know much more about the subject, warts and all. In fact, students often have a sense that something is missing when they are given white-washed or incomplete histories. The only solution to dealing with those who are controlling the historical narratives is to offer much more information, not less. This is the fundamental principle of Historicism and New Historicism and other theories and methods of historiography.